Seung‐Hwan Lee

Seunghwan Lee, Tae Hyun Kim

Deep image denoising networks have achieved impressive success with the help of a considerably large number of synthetic train datasets. However, real-world denoising is a still challenging problem due to the dissimilarity between distributions of real and synthetic noisy datasets. Although several real-world noisy datasets have been presented, the number of train datasets (i.e., pairs of clean and real noisy images) is limited, and acquiring more real noise datasets is laborious and expensive. To mitigate this problem, numerous attempts to simulate real noise models using generative models have been studied. Nevertheless, previous works had to train multiple networks to handle multiple different noise distributions. By contrast, we propose a new generative model that can synthesize noisy images with multiple different noise distributions. Specifically, we adopt recent contrastive learning to learn distinguishable latent features of the noise. Moreover, our model can generate new noisy images by transferring the noise characteristics solely from a single reference noisy image. We demonstrate the accuracy and the effectiveness of our noise model for both known and unknown noise removal.

Seunghwan Lee, Gwanmo Park, Hyewon Son et al.

We introduce InFusionSurf, an innovative enhancement for neural radiance field (NeRF) frameworks in 3D surface reconstruction using RGB-D video frames. Building upon previous methods that have employed feature encoding to improve optimization speed, we further improve the reconstruction quality with minimal impact on optimization time by refining depth information. InFusionSurf addresses camera motion-induced blurs in each depth frame through a per-frame intrinsic refinement scheme. It incorporates the truncated signed distance field (TSDF) Fusion, a classical real-time 3D surface reconstruction method, as a pretraining tool for the feature grid, enhancing reconstruction details and training speed. Comparative quantitative and qualitative analyses show that InFusionSurf reconstructs scenes with high accuracy while maintaining optimization efficiency. The effectiveness of our intrinsic refinement and TSDF Fusion-based pretraining is further validated through an ablation study.

Jongseok Kim, Youngjae Yu, Seunghwan Lee et al.

We present an approach named the Cycled Composition Network that can measure the semantic distance of the composition of image-text embedding. First, the Composition Network transit a reference image to target image in an embedding space using relative caption. Second, the Correction Network calculates a difference between reference and retrieved target images in the embedding space and match it with a relative caption. Our goal is to learn a Composition mapping with the Composition Network. Since this one-way mapping is highly under-constrained, we couple it with an inverse relation learning with the Correction Network and introduce a cycled relation for given Image We participate in Fashion IQ 2020 challenge and have won the first place with the ensemble of our model.

Youngjae Yu, Seunghwan Lee, Yuncheol Choi et al.

We present an approach named CurlingNet that can measure the semantic distance of composition of image-text embedding. In order to learn an effective image-text composition for the data in the fashion domain, our model proposes two key components as follows. First, the Delivery makes the transition of a source image in an embedding space. Second, the Sweeping emphasizes query-related components of fashion images in the embedding space. We utilize a channel-wise gating mechanism to make it possible. Our single model outperforms previous state-of-the-art image-text composition models including TIRG and FiLM. We participate in the first fashion-IQ challenge in ICCV 2019, for which ensemble of our model achieves one of the best performances.